A sample of the records of emergency services of the United States confirmed that clog is smaller than your elbow in your ear a good way to pierce the eardrum.
About 66 percent of patients with traumatic tympanic perforation were treated were wrong by instruments in their ears, and nearly half of these cases involved stick swab.
"We have the experience, the cotton tip applicators [Q-tips and the like] are often the instrument that patients use to clean their ears," directed by Dr. Eric Carniol, ENT specialist at the University of Toronto, he told Reuters Health by e-mail.
"Our hypothesis is that most of these injuries to patients caused, attempted his own ear wax get on," he said.
Tympanic membrane or eardrum, a structure to the bone in the ear transmits the sound from the outer ear, and perforation of the membrane can cause hearing loss, Carniol and his colleagues have written in a recent issue of JAMA Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery.
The otolaryngologists (ear, nose and throat), many patients in the office with drums perforations are most commonly caused by ear infections or trauma to see Carniol said. The study focused on traumatic cause of perforated eardrum.
Many patients do not realize that often can damage the ear canal, pushes the earwax more (impact) or even the eardrum bursts they said.
The researchers studied five years, records of the 100 emergency services nationwide in the United States and found more than 900 visitors injuries ears related. Representing nearly 5,000 visits to the emergency services, the timpani perforation nationwide in the same period, the researchers wrote.
Just use a washcloth
About 60 percent of the patients were men, and most were 18 or younger. "Ear Canal Instrumentation" was the cause of the injury in 61 percent of cases and 45 percent of cotton lace applicators involved specifically the study.
For children, from infants to the elderly, five foreign instruments were the cause of 86 percent of the injuries; six and 12 years was 66 percent.
Among adults 37 to 54, with 53 percent of the perforations are solid foreign objects in the ear causes and in 55 or more years ago, it was 67 percent. In addition to cotton pads, other items include toys, combs, hair pins, pencils, straws, toothpicks and lollipop sticks.
"After a shower to wipe most people get away with just a washcloth the wax off the ear." - Eric Carniol, University of Toronto
The water activity such as water skiing and scuba diving, was also one of the leading causes of injuries, especially among adolescents and young people from 19 to 36. years, Carniol said.
Carniol hope that people learn the most important result of the study "Please do not use Q-tips to clean your ears"
Carniol said that many patients come to his office to ask how to clean earwax.
"The wax is produced in the outer third of the ear canal and is soluble in water. Therefore, after a shower, most people with get away to wipe only a washcloth with the wax off the ear, "he said.
Self-cleaning mechanism
The article is "a beautiful study of emergency room visits for ear piercing traumatic," Dr. Hamid Djalilian, Clinical Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of California, Irvine, who has not participated in the investigation.
But the study "not considered for all patients who have had this problem in the United States because they do not include patients who sought in an outpatient setting, the care, such as emergency assistance, family doctor or nose, ear and throat," he said Reuters Health by e-mail.
The ears have a self-cleaning mechanism, Djalilian.
"This means that the dead skin of the ear canal with earwax moved outwardly and gradually from the same ear."
Therefore, a cotton swab with necessary rarely, and almost always pushes the wax deeper into the canal instead of removing the wax, he said.
"A little wax stick to the Q-Tip and the user to do a good feeling about themselves somewhat, but was pushed odds are five to ten times more wax" Djalilian said.
The use of cotton buds (or other) in the auditory canal is also the most frequent cause of infections of the ear canal, while the skin of the ear canal scratch and bacteria can penetrate into the skin, ear canal infection causes (external ear infections), Djalilian noted.
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